Valentine's Party

Since the USD 402 Elementary schools were out of school this Thursday and Friday for parent/teacher conferences the Valentine's Day parties were held Wednesday morning.

I spent the morning at Madelyn's party. After a morning snack, passing out Valentines and decorating cards it was time for me to go to work. I love that my job allows me the flexibility to attend all of Madelyn's holiday parties.








I was amused by this bulletin that was hanging in the classroom. Madelyn's daily news was interesting to say the least. My sweet child!

Wordless Wednesday

Basketball

This is the first year that Madelyn was old enough to play basketball on the Augusta Youth Basketball (AYB) league. I was actually suprised when Madelyn expressed interest in playing. Madelyn plays on one of the 1st and 2nd grade girls' teams and is the only first grader on her team. Altough the youngest of the team, she is as tall or taller than the other five girls. Practices are Monday and Thursday evenings and games are every Saturday. Madelyn's team is 100%, with not winning a game yet. They try hard but just don't have the experience or skill that some of the other teams have. However, the girls all seem to have a good time and at this age I suppose that is what is important.

Since basketball season is right in the midst of wrestling Ryan very rarely gets to take Madelyn to practice and won't be able to attend a game until March. I, unfortunately, am one of those moms that gets too emotionally involved and yells too much at the games. I'm sure Ryan is glad that he doesn't have to witness his wife acting a fool at his daughter's game...but just wait until March.





Monkey in the middle before the game.......these girls are hardcore! :)

Wordless Wednesday

SNOW DAY!!!!

Augusta schools were cancelled on Friday due to the snow so I decided to take a snow day too. How could I not when Madelyn asked me to stay home with her and go sledding?
Ryan and Madelyn spent a couple hours in the morning cleaning off driveways (ours and 4 others) while I remained warm inside our house.


Then it was off to "The Hill" for some sledding. We stopped by the Terrys' to pick up Kenzie and Marcus and then Brandon and Lisa joined us at the hill.











Madelyn chose to wear her cowboy boots rather than her snow boots against her parents advice and soon discovered that was not such a great idea. After Ryan had to fish out a sock at the bottom of her boot Madelyn was pretty much over sledding.

Lunch Date

Yesterday Ryan joined Madelyn in the school cafeteria for a lunch date. Madelyn was super excited to be having lunch with her daddy, and all the other kids loved that he was there too.

One of the many fond memories I have of my dad is when he used to spend part of a day with me at school. He would usually spend time in my classroom and then take me out to lunch. When I went through those nasty teenage years I no longer wanted my dad at school because of the whole embarrassment factor that teenage kids have so my dad honored my request. If I knew then what I know now I wouldn't have been such a teenager and would have gladly had my daddy join me a day at school even when I was a teenager. Because as an adult those are the memories that I most treasure.

Racing for a Cure

I have officially signed up and committed myself to raising money and racing for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Team in Training (TNT). I also recruited two of my friends to join me in this venture. I will be running my very first marathon (26.2 miles) on June 6, 2010 in San Diego, Ca. Initially I was only planning to run the 1/2 marathon (13.1 miles) but with some encouragament from Ryan I have decided to run the marathon. Since I have a full marathon on my bucket list, have already run four 1/2 marathons and I'll be traveling to San Diego for this race now is as good as time as ever, right? My training partners will be training for their first 1/2 marathon right along with me.

You can check out my fundraising page at pages.teamintraining.org/ks/rnr10/jmuhlig .

I would greatly appreciate your donation as I attempt to raise money to find a cure for cancer.



Committment Day! We are all smiles... I wonder if the "after" pic will be so happy?